The judge sentenced him to a 20-year prison term. He was given a split sentence of 39 months, meaning that he will serve three years and three months in prison before serving 60 months on probation. He will serve the full 20 years if he is charged with another crime during that time.

Michael Jackson, district attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Alabama, announced the guilty plea Wednesday. He also announced that Greensboro resident Johnny McCalpine, 49, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault after an August drunk driving crash.

According to court records, McCalpine’s blood alcohol level was .258, more than three times the legal limit, when he struck a car on Alabama Highway 69 and injured a 19-year-old woman, a 20-year-old woman and a four-year-old boy.

In December 2008, McCalpine pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2003 death of a man at the Elks Lodge in Hale County. Authorities said that he swung a knife during a fight and struck Woodrow Faddis, 41, who was trying to break up a fight. Judge Wiggins revoked his probation on that charge on Tuesday.